Re: "PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites" Book

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Tony Marston<tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > "Eddie Drapkin" <oorza2k5@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:68de37340908060841x129a9096w6c0907f85614c52e@mail.gmail.com... > <snip> >> >> Does no one see the inherent issues in buying a book about a >> not-feature-complete version of the language? > > PHP 6 does not exist yet, and no hosting companies provide it as an option, > so describing existing versions of PHP as "not-feature-complete" is a bit > premature. > > As the book is simply an update to his original version which was published > in 2003, and again in 2005, it is about using PHP and MySQL to build a > dynamic web site, and as such every version is still perfectly valid and > useful to the novice programmer. > > This not a book which is supposed to describe every possible feature within > the PHP language as it is not necessary to use every possible feature in > order to build a dynamic website. > > -- > Tony Marston > http://www.tonymarston.net > http://www.radicore.org > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I meant that PHP6 was "not feature-complete" in that the "spec" of PHP6 will change before it's released. We don't know at this point what will or will not be included in PHP6 and writing a book about an incomplete version of the language seems silly.